Lebanese Civil War: 1975-1990: War in Literature

The book details the impact of AIDS and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut on a circle of friends and family through a series of clips, quips, hallucinations, short plays, and conversations with both the living and the dead.

Broken Mirrors examines the roots of an endemic civil war and a country’s unsettled past.

Told in a distinctive, captivating voice that fuses vivid cinematic imagery, a page-turning plot, and exquisite, dark poetry, De Niro's Game is an explosive portrait of life in a war zone and a powerful meditation on what comes after.

The book is a harrowing, intense account of Lebanon's civil war of 1975-1976 and its bloody aftermath, focusing on the personal dimensions of the tragedy.

Translated from the French by Georgina Kleege, Sitt Marie Rose is based on the true story of a woman abducted by militiamen during the civil war in Lebanon.

Set against the background of post-1967 Lebanon, this novel caused a sensation in the Arab world because of its frank and realistic descriptions of Lebanese women's problems.Translation of Tawahin Bayrut.

This novel is a fresh reminder of how quickly and easily things can get out of control. It is not so much a political analyses of the civil war but a very personal view of life in a small village during the war

What it would be like to live your whole life under the shadow of war? To have your village suddenly destroyed? To lose your family in one crashing blow? This is the moving story of what one child faced, written by a priest who has cared for the war orphans of Lebanon since 1977.

"The narrator Marianna, haunted by events her family is reluctant to discuss, recounts the story of her and her older sister growing up in wartime Beirut ... "